Endangered Ocelot Is Caught on Camera in the Atascosa Highlands Region of Arizona for the First Time in 50 Years
Conservationists in Arizona are excited about a highly rare sighting. After analyzing the animals spots, researchers confirmed it had never been recorded before. Ocelots are small neotropical cats, about the size of a bobcat. The sighting was a result of a wildlife monitoring project run by researchers with the Phoenix Zoo. The team deployed about 50 cameras in April around the Coronado National Forest near Arizonas border with Mexico. It wasn’t until a routine change of SD cards and batteries that they checked the footage....